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When It All Came Together: Bishop John J. Wright and the Diocese of Worcester, 1950-1959

DAVID J. O'BRIEN President of the American Catholic Historical Association 1998 The Catholic Historical Review VOL. LXXXVAPRIL, 1999No. 2 WHEN IT ALL CAME TOGETHER: BISHOP JOHN J. WRIGHT AND THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER, 1950-1959 David J. O'Brien* I want to express my sincere gratitude to the members of the Association for allowing me to serve as president. I have drawn inspiration over a lifetime from the work of so many ofyou. When I was still a graduate student, more than thirty years ago, Father Harry Browne tracked me down at one of these AHA meetings to challenge my first published article, which contained some criticism of my elders in the field of U.S. Catholic history. Brown, who became a lifelong friend, then introduced me to Monsignor John Tracy Ellis, and through the two of them and another benefactor, Francis L. Broderick, president in 1968, 1 was ushered into this field, mentored we would say today. Their witness persuaded me that one could do no better work for our church and our country than to join the small but talented brigade of scholars, historians, theologians , and social scientists who were opening up the whole field of American Catholic Studies. To have the privilege of presiding over this Association, one of the centers of Catholic intellectual life, is a high honor for which I am sincerely grateful. Please regard these highly provisional remarks about Bishop John J. Wright and the infant Diocese of Worcester in the 1950's as an invita- *Dr. O'Brien is Loyola Professor of Roman Catholic Studies in the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. He prepared this paper as his presidential address but because of illness could not attend the seventy-ninth annual meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association. He therefore asked the second vice-president, Sister Alice Gallin,O.S.U.,to read a shorter version of it in his place at a luncheon held in the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C, on January 9, 1999. 175 176WHEN IT ALL CAME TOGETHER: BISHOPJOHNJ. WRIGHT tion to further reflection on the experience of the American Catholic community between the end of World War II and the opening of the Second Vatican Council. When I began to work in this field everyone argued that we needed more studies of the American Church in the twentieth century ifwe were to understand our experience of change in the 1960's. We now have had an exceptional development of American Catholic historical scholarship, including remarkable work on Catholic life from 1900 through the 1930's. But, aside from the pioneering work ofJohn McGreevy,1 the years of war and cold war remain more or less untouched. One result is that we historians have made a less significant contribution than we should have to the self-understanding, and thus to the common life, of the American Church. Several years ago, after finishing my history of the Diocese of Syracuse , I delivered the annual Loyola Lecture at Lemoyne College. I organized the talk around three questions about the church of Syracuse: what did it mean when they put it together? what did it mean when they had it together? what did it mean when it all (well, almost all) fell apart? I still think they are pretty good questions. Today I want to ask the second question of another particular time and place, Worcester under John Wright.2 Did it really all come together in Worcester in the 1950's? If one will accept a caveat about the ambiguity of all success stories, I think the answer is yes. The coming together began on February 1, 1950, when the Associated Press wire-informed the local newspaper that Worcester county was now separated from the Diocese of Springfield and was a new diocese with its cathedral at St. Paul's Church, under John J. Wright, at that moment auxiliary bishop of Boston. The news was not unexpected; rumors had spread after the death several months earlier of the Bishop of Springfield, Thomas Mary O'Leary, that Worcester's time had finally come. St. Paul's was a surprise. Built two generations earlier as a potential...

The ABC's of Cultural Understanding and Communication

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsPatricia R. SchmidtPatricia R. Schmidt is an Assistant Professor in the Education Department at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY. Her research interests focus on multicultural education and early childhood literacy.

Revising a Basic Statistics Course

Members of the faculty of Le Moyne College made sweeping changes in the basic statistics course provided for the social and life sciences by the Department of Mathematics. The departments involved undertook an intensive collaboration. Intense scrutiny was given to the purpose and goals of the course. The result is a course that is significantly different from its predecessor. It places more emphasis on concepts and technology. A laboratory component was added to give students experience with Minitab and messy datasets. The implementation of the course had the expected problems. These are documented along with what was done to improve the course the second time it was offered.

Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South (review)

I38CIVIL WAR HISTORY relief as enthusiasm. In contrast, editor Gabor Borrit argues that Abraham Lincoln blindly stumbled toward mass slaughter in the mistaken belief that slavery could be marginalized without resort to arms; even readers who find Borrit's depiction of a naive Lincoln unpersuasive, as does this reviewer, will find much in this wide-ranging essay to ponder. William Gienapp explains why the globe's most advanced democracy failed to preserve the peace, andWilliamW. Freehling similarly suggests that war came because of the political peculiarities of a slave regime unlike any other in the Americas. My caveats are few. Notes belong at the foot of the page, and a work of history, especially one designed in part for classroom use, should have an index! Douglas R. Egerton Le Moyne College Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South. By DouglasAmbrose. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 226. $45.00.) Perhaps only Henry Hughes, the relatively obscure "sociologist" from Port Gibson, Mississippi, could have rivaled George Fitzhugh's status as America's most inventive and outrageous defender of slavery. This youngest of the lot of Southern "controversialists" was something of a caricature of several betterknown proslavery writers. His megalomania, distinguished by inklings of messianic mission, surpassed that of James Henry Hammond, while his wracking doubts and acute sense ofisolation made George Frederick Holmes and Beverley Tucker seem distinctly upbeat and clubby in comparison. As for his social vision , he was as contemptuous of Yankees as Edmund Ruffin, more chilling in his prescription for race relations than even Josiah Nott, and every bit as intent on fundamentally reforming Southern slavery as James Henley Thornwell. DouglasAmbrose adds his carefully drawn portrait ofHughes's life and work to an ever-expanding gallery of proslavery ideologues. Nearly a dozen modern studies have taken the same biographical approach scholars ofabolitionism have long used, conveying the personal stories ofthose disparate individuals who mustered the "positive good" defense ofthe institution (though it seems worth noting that full-blown studies of such early innovators as William Harper and Thomas Roderick Dew remain to be written).Ambrose is not the first to take up Hughes's fascinating career—BertramWyatt-Brown, RonaldTakaki, and Stanford Lyman have shown in shorter pieces how Hughes turned to the incipient field of sociology to craft his own evaluation of Southern "waranteeism." But this closely argued book presents, in the sort ofpainstaking attention to Hughes's theories that his historical contemporaries never came close to granting, what will surely be the definitive study ofthis peculiar Mississippian's fourteen-year public career. After detailing Hughes's family and his upbringing during the Southwestern cotton boom, Ambrose turns to the remarkable diary kept by the young lawyer between 1 848 and his trip to Europe in 1 853. This source takes readers on a tour of a mental landscape they will not soon forget, while it also allowsAmbrose to BOOK REVIEWS139 compile a list (located in an appendix) of Hughes's reading that will be of use to all students of Southern intellectual life. The core of the study, however, is an extended investigation of Hughes's Treatise on Sociology of 1 854 and a handful of his later writings, all of which Ambrose subjects to a searching analysis owing much to the work of Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. In the final chapter, Ambrose argues that even though Hughes became a casualty of sectional conflict in 1862, his "statist" program was realized by the unlikely agent of the Confederate States of America. This is the most original and provocative (ifnot the most convincing) part ofthe study and is the one likely to be of most interest to students of the Civil War. That this volume does not rank among the best studies of proslavery polemicists is as much a tribute to the achievements of Drew Faust, Neal Gillespie, and others as it is an indication of any serious flaws of its own. That said, however, there remains the lurking sense that in its admirable attempt to be evenhanded about its subject; the book does not adequately convey Hughes's "fine sense of the ludicrous," as his eulogist aptly put it, and...

David Stevenson. <italic>Armaments and the Coming of War: Europe, 1904–1914</italic>. New York: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press. 1996. Pp. xi, 463. $85.00

David Stevenson. Armaments and the Coming of War: Europe, 1904–1914. New York: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press. 1996. Pp. xi, 463. $85.00 Get access Stevenson David. Armaments and the Coming of War: Europe, 1904–1914. New York: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press. 1996. Pp. xi, 463. $85.00. John W. Langdon John W. Langdon Le Moyne College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 103, Issue 2, April 1998, Pages 503–504, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/103.2.503 Published: 01 April 1998

The Values Program at Le Moyne College

Ten years ago the faculty and staff at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, developed the campuswide Values Program. Their dream was to guide the way for all students to reflect seriously on their values, cultivate personal and social responsibility, and strengthen their moral courage to act on their principles—a tall order, but the program is making a difference.

Effects of melody and lyrics on mood and memory.

137 undergraduate Le Moyne College students volunteered in a study on music and its effects on mood and memory. In a 2 x 3 between-subjects design, there were 2 lyric conditions (Happy and Sad Lyrics) and 3 music conditions (No Music, Happy Music, and Sad Music). Participants were asked to listen to instrumental music or mentally to create a melody as they read lyrics to themselves. The study tested cued-recall, self-reported mood state and psychological arousal. Analysis suggested that mood of participants was influenced by the music played, not the lyrics. Results also showed those exposed to No Music had the highest score on the recall test. Personal relevance to the lyrics was not correlated with memory.

Phyllis Morris: In Memoriam

Phyllis Sutton Morris, co-founder of the Sartre Society of North America and member of its executive committee for several years, died on May 31, 1997 from complications due to cancer. Phyllis received her undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley and her doctorate from the University of Michigan. She taught for several years at Kirkland College in New York and was, at various times in more recent years, on the faculty at LeMoyne College, Oberlin College, and the University of Michigan. She was a devoted teacher who dedicated a great deal of time and energy to preparing her classes and to meeting with students.

<bold>Jefferson in Paris</bold>. Executive producer: Ismail Merchant; directed by James Ivory; screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. 1995; color; 136 minutes. Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures

Journal Article Jefferson in Paris. Executive producer: Ismail Merchant; directed by James Ivory; screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. 1995; color; 136 minutes. Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures Get access Jefferson in Paris. Executive producer: Ismail Merchant; directed by James Ivory; screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. 1995; color; 136 minutes. Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures. Douglas R. Egerton Douglas R. Egerton Le Moyne College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 100, Issue 4, October 1995, Pages 1202–1203, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/100.4.1202 Published: 01 October 1995

"Not Precisely War Stories": Edith Wharton's Short Fiction from the Great War

"Not Precisely War Stories":Edith Wharton's Short Fiction from the Great War Julie Olin-Ammentorp Julie Olin-Ammentorp Le Moyne College Notes 1. Edith Wharton, The Letters of Edith Wharton, ed. R. W. B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis (New York: Scribner's, 1988), p. 357. 2. In Edith Wharton: A Biography (New York: Harper and Row, 1975), R. W. B. Lewis counts only "Coming Home" as a war story. I follow Barbara White's count of three in Edith Wharton: A Study of the Short Fiction (New York: Twayne, 1991). Wharton's own phrase—"not precisely war stories"—suggests broadening the genre. 3. White, p. 88. 4. Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934; repr. New York: Scribner's, 1961), pp. 355, 357. 5. Wharton, Letters, p. 333. 6. See Lewis, Edith Wharton and Shari Benstock, No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton (New York: Scribner's, 1994). 7. Letters, p. 409. 8. Edith Wharton, Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort (New York: Scribner's, 1917), p. 83. 9. Wharton, Fighting France, pp. 88-89. Compare also the passage beginning "The wooded cliff swarmed with 'them'" (p. 133). 10. Wharton, Fighting France, p. 200. 11. Wharton, Fighting France, pp. 146, 149. 12. Wharton, Fighting France, pp. 139-40; final ellipsis Wharton's. 13. Wharton, Fighting France, p. 176. 14. Wharton, Fighting France, pp. 208-9. 15. Wharton, Fighting France, p. 193. 16. Wharton, Fighting France, p. 33. 17. Wharton, Fighting France, p. 50. 18. Wharton, Fighting France, p. 50. 19. Wharton, Letters, p. 356. In No Man's Land, Vol. 2: Sexchanges (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1989), Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar quote Mrs. Humphry Ward's similar enthusiasm upon visiting the front: "For a woman—a marvellous experience!" (pp. 295-96). 20. Wharton, Letters, p. 356. 21. Wharton, Letters, p. 356. 22. Wharton, Letters, p. 350. 23. Wharton, Letters, p. 398. 24. The story has rarely been discussed, and when it is is often faulted for its structure. Barbara White writes that "It has an unnecessary proliferation of narrators, an overcomplicated plot, and a confused ending" (p. 86). But Alan Price notes that when the story was published in the collection Xingu it was "singled out as 'the most notable in the book,'" and that Wharton's editors "were quick to praise the narrative structure: "We need not elaborate on our liking the way in which the story is told—the interposition of the American youth [Greer] as narrator gives it just the right touch for a story of these accumulating horrors." Alan Price, "Edith Wharton's War Story," TSWL 8 (1989), 95, 98. 25. Edith Wharton, The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton, Vol. 2, ed. R. W. B. Lewis (New York: Scribner's, 1968), p. 230. All further references to Wharton's short stories will be to this volume and will be cited parenthetically in the text. 26. See Lewis, Edith Wharton, p. 367. 27. Wharton, Letters, p. 339. 28. "Scharlach" is German for "scarlet"; it also resonates, of course, with the English "scar." 29. Both Lewis (Edith Wharton, p. 394) and Barbara White (p. 86) assume Yvonne Malo's sexual relationship with Scharlach, yet it is not as decidedly implied as one might expect; the only real hint is Yvonne's reluctance to talk to Jean alone. By way of contrast, there is very little doubt that Jean is responsible for Scharlach's death. 30. Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1975), p. 115. 31. Quoted in Price, p. 95. 32. In that she finds her "vocation" in the war, Audrey Rushworth is reminiscent of Radclyffe Hall's Miss Ogilvie in "Miss Ogilvie Finds Herself" (1926; in The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, ed. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar [New York: W.W. Norton, 1985, pp. 1443-57). Although Miss Ogilvie ultimately dies an untimely death, there is no doubt that her war-time activities fulfilled her, giving her at last a sense of full humanity. In contrast, Audrey Rushworth—though finally out of her forgotten niche in the family estate, and living with a sense of purpose—seems callous and self-important rather than a...

THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF TRUST AND THE POLITICS OF SUSPICION

Pacific Philosophical QuarterlyVolume 73, Issue 4 p. 390-400 Article THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF TRUST AND THE POLITICS OF SUSPICION Mark Owen Webb, Mark Owen Webb Appalachian State University, North CarolinaI owe gratitude to Linda Alcoff, Patrick Beach, and Mark Lance for making a variety of suggestions for improving this paper. I am also very grateful to Andrea Dworkin, who inspired this paper with the speech she gave in Seneca Falls, New York, in the early fall of 1991. An earlier version of this paper was read at a colloquium at Le Moyne College, April 21, 1992.Search for more papers by this author Mark Owen Webb, Mark Owen Webb Appalachian State University, North CarolinaI owe gratitude to Linda Alcoff, Patrick Beach, and Mark Lance for making a variety of suggestions for improving this paper. I am also very grateful to Andrea Dworkin, who inspired this paper with the speech she gave in Seneca Falls, New York, in the early fall of 1991. An earlier version of this paper was read at a colloquium at Le Moyne College, April 21, 1992.Search for more papers by this author First published: December 1992 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0114.1992.tb00346.xCitations: 5 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume73, Issue4December 1992Pages 390-400 RelatedInformation

The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict.

Journal Article The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict. By Donald R. Hickey. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. xvi + 457 pp. $32.50.) Get access Douglas R. Egerton Douglas R. Egerton Le Moyne College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1351–1352, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078304 Published: 01 March 1991

Producer column: Natural gas futures and the producer

Natural GasVolume 6, Issue 6 p. 18-19 Article Producer column: Natural gas futures and the producer Brian T. O'Reilly, Brian T. O'ReillySearch for more papers by this authorRichard G. Morgan, Richard G. Morgan Brian T. O'Reilly is an associate, specializing in energy, in the Washington, DC, office of the law firm Lane & Mittendorf. O'Reilly received his undergraduate degree from LeMoyne College and his law degree from Emory University. He works closely with Richard G. Morgan, a partner at Lane & Mittendorf, who is the other columnist for producer matters.Search for more papers by this author Brian T. O'Reilly, Brian T. O'ReillySearch for more papers by this authorRichard G. Morgan, Richard G. Morgan Brian T. O'Reilly is an associate, specializing in energy, in the Washington, DC, office of the law firm Lane & Mittendorf. O'Reilly received his undergraduate degree from LeMoyne College and his law degree from Emory University. He works closely with Richard G. Morgan, a partner at Lane & Mittendorf, who is the other columnist for producer matters.Search for more papers by this author First published: January 1990 https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.3410060608 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume6, Issue6January 1990Pages 18-19 RelatedInformation

BOOK REVIEWS

Journal Article BOOK REVIEWS Get access Lonergan, Spirituality, and The Meeting of Religions. By Vernon Gregson. University Press of America, 1985. 154 pages. $10.75. Nancy C Ring Nancy C Ring Le Moyne College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LVI, Issue 1, Spring 1988, Pages 159–160, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LVI.1.159 Published: 01 March 1988

Cryptology: From Caesar Ciphers to Public-key Cryptosystems

(1987). Cryptology: From Caesar Ciphers to Public-key Cryptosystems. The College Mathematics Journal: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 2-17.

Aquinas’ Third Way from the Standpoint of the Aristotelian Syllogistic

Journal Article Aquinas' Third Way From the Standpoint of the Aristotelian Syllogistic Get access Charles J. Kelly Charles J. Kelly Le Moyne College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 69, Issue 2, 1 April 1986, Pages 189–206, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist198669216 Published: 17 December 2014

Paul Bew and Henry Patterson. <italic>Seán Lemass and the Making of Modern Ireland, 1945–66</italic>. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. 1982. Pp. 224. £15.00

Journal Article Paul Bew and Henry Patterson. Seán Lemass and the Making of Modern Ireland, 1945–66. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. 1982. Pp. 224. £15.00 Get access Bew Paul and Patterson Henry. Seán Lemass and the Making of Modern Ireland, 1945–66. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. 1982. Pp. 224. £15.00. Joseph M. Curran Joseph M. Curran Le Moyne College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 5, December 1983, Page 1272, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.5.1272 Published: 01 December 1983

Betty D. Vernon. <italic>Ellen Wilkinson, 1891–1947</italic>. London: Croom Helm; distributed by Biblio Distribution Center, Totowa, N. J. 1982. Pp. 254. $33.00

Journal Article Betty D. Vernon. Ellen Wilkinson, 1891–1947. London: Croom Helm; distributed by Biblio Distribution Center, Totowa, N. J. 1982. Pp. 254. $33.00 Get access Vernon Betty D.. Ellen Wilkinson, 1891–1947. London: Croom Helm; distributed by Biblio Distribution Center, Totowa, N. J. 1982. Pp. 254. $33.00. Barbara J. Blaszak Barbara J. Blaszak Le Moyne College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 120, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.120 Published: 01 February 1983

Bradley F. Smith. <italic>The Road to Nuremberg</italic>. New York: Basic Books. 1981. Pp. 303. $14.95

Bradley F. Smith. The Road to Nuremberg. New York: Basic Books. 1981. Pp. 303. $14.95 Get access Smith Bradley F.. The Road to Nuremberg. New York: Basic Books. 1981. Pp. 303. $14.95. William J. Bosch William J. Bosch Le Moyne College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 87, Issue 2, April 1982, Page 485, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/87.2.485 Published: 01 April 1982

Patricia Jalland. <italic>The Liberals and Ireland: The Ulster Question in British Politics to 1914</italic>. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1980. Pp. 303. $27.50

Patricia Jalland. The Liberals and Ireland: The Ulster Question in British Politics to 1914. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1980. Pp. 303. $27.50 Get access Jalland Patricia. The Liberals and Ireland: The Ulster Question in British Politics to 1914. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1980. Pp. 303. $27.50. Joseph M. Curran Joseph M. Curran Le Moyne College Syracuse, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 86, Issue 2, April 1981, Page 400, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/86.2.400 Published: 01 April 1981